Haphtara Cycles
Subtitle: A Handbook to the Haphtaroth of the Jewish Year
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: July 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780765761453
Subjects: Judaism; Religious festivals; Haftarot; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Fiction; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Religion / Judaism / General; Commentaries; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - Old Testament
Description: "The Haphtara Cycle: A Handbook to the Haphtaroth of the Jewish Year describes and analyzes each of the seventy-nine haphtaroth of the year, covering the Sabbath and the Festivals and Fast days for both Ashkenazim and Sephardim. The author gives the historical background to passages in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekial, and the twelve (minor) Prophets, and also the earlier sections in Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings.

Rosenberg draws parallels from archaeology and extra-biblical sources and looks at the commentaries of the Talmud and the Midrash, medievalists like Rashi and Kimchi, and moderns such as Mendel Hirsch and Issachar Jacobson.".

"This book throws new light on the passages of the many biblical works that we read each week in the synagogue but that we tend to ignore for lack of explanatory material. This deficiency has now been filled by a work that is both accessible and scholarly and should be readily available in every synagogue where the haphtara is read."--BOOK JACKET.